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Obscure 1960s group HP Lovecraft are revered among psych aficionados, and this collection, which represents the band's complete recordings, and comes complete with a booklet full of pictures and notes on the band, tells the group's full tale. Liner Note Author: Nick Warburton. Despite never achieving star status, H.P. Lovecraft was one of the more interesting psychedelic bands of the 1960s San Francisco scene. This collection contains remastered versions of both of the albums they made for the Phillips label plus alternate versions of two tracks. An idiosyncratic collision of folk-rock, baroque pop, sonic experimentation, and straight-up psychedelia, the band, named after the famed science fiction author, utilized the troubadour talents of George Edwards and the jazz/classical keyboard chops of Dave Michaels to take material by everyone from Fred Neil to Randy Newman and reshape it in a paisley-tinged sonic funhouse full of eerie electronic effects, cascading keyboards, and flashes of folk-rock intensity.
